Report on the Condition of the Sea Fisheries of the South Coast of New England, Part 4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1878 - Fisheries |
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Adams Allen American ports-Continued arrival Bark barrels Bbls Bedford Benjamin boat Bought from Boston Brazil Brig Built Cape Capt Captain captured Charles Coffin Commission Conn Cook County crew Dartmouth December Edgartown Edward Fairhaven fish fishery Folger Gardner George Gibbs Gifford Hathaway Henry Howland Hussey Indian Ocean Island James John Joseph July 17 July 20 June 19 June 20 Lake Last reported London lost Luce Macy Managing owner Mass Mass.-Continued Mattapoisett N. W. Coast Name of vessel Nantucket North Pacific owner or agent Pacific Ocean Parker port pounds bone Provincetown Result of voyage returns of whaling-vessels River Rotch Russell Sag Harbor sailing from American Samuel Schooner Sent home Sept Ship sloop Smith sold South Atlantic South Atlantic July sperm Sperm-oil Starbuck Swain Swift Taber Table showing returns Thomas Tonnage Westport whale whale-fishery Whale-oil Whalebone whalemen whaling-vessels Name withdrawn York
Popular passages
Page 106 - But where, thought I, is the crew? Their struggle has long been over ; they have gone down amidst the roar of the tempest ; their bones lie whitening among the caverns of the deep. Silence, oblivion, like the waves, have closed over them, and no one can tell the story of their end.
Page 114 - How often has the mistress, the wife, the mother, pored over the daily news to catch some casual intelligence of this rover of the deep! How has expectation darkened into anxiety, anxiety into dread, and dread into despair! Alas! not one memento shall ever return for love to cherish. All that shall ever be known, is that she sailed from her port,
Page 114 - ... the caverns of the deep. Silence, oblivion, like the waves, have closed over them, and no one can tell the story of their end. What sighs have been wafted after that ship ! what prayers offered up at the deserted fireside of home ! How often has the...
Page 50 - And so God send the good ship to her desired port in safety. Amen, dated in London the day of September, 7679 George Churchey.
Page 53 - No sea but what is vexed by their fisheries. No climate that is not witness to their toils. Neither the perseverance of Holland, nor the activity of France, nor the dexterous and firm sagacity of English enterprise, ever carried this most perilous mode of...
Page 53 - For some time past, the old world has been fed from the new. The scarcity which you have felt would have been a desolating famine, if this child of your old age, with a true filial piety, with a Roman charity, had not put the full breast of its youthful exuberance to the mouth of its exhausted parent.
Page 109 - The ship brought up as suddenly and violently as if she had struck a rock, and trembled for a few seconds like a leaf.
Page 53 - I contemplate these things ; when I know that the colonies in general owe little or nothing to any care of ours, and that they are not squeezed into this happy form by the constraints of watchful and suspicious government, but that, through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection...
Page 53 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits, whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south.
Page 50 - scragg,' came into the harbor and continued there three days. This excited the curiosity of the people, and led them to devise measures to prevent his return out of the harbor. They accordingly invented and caused to be wrought for them a harpoon, with which they attacked and killed the whale. This first success encouraged them to undertake whaling as a permanent business; whales being at that time numerous in the vicinity of the shores.